Being a construction of your humble blogger Tepid Halibut, with the aim of posting one vintage slide image per day, from now until Kingdom Come. (Or until Mr Halibut gets bored.)

Saturday, 29 April 2017

Chillaxing in the Chill-Out Room

Education Time - Knowing that this Blog is eagerly read by several High School History classes, I thought I'd provide some historical context.

In the Nineties, a popular social activity was teenagers turning up to Raves. Wearing outlandish clothing teens would ingest large quantities of designer drugs (such as Cake, ClarkyKat or Adrenochrome, and dance to the hypnotic music of DJ Funsize.

At each rave, there was a chill-out room, when ravers could take a break, regain their energy, before boogying the night away.

Above, we have an image of the Chill Out room at the Windows 94 Rave Event.

The Slide Guy says 'Hi'

Welcome to The Past

What's this all about? Well, let me explain. Before digital cameras, people used film cameras. Even better, for many years people used slide films, allowing them to have the neighbours round so they could project their pictures onto a wall, so everyone could act interested and ogle their neighbours.

Digital cameras killed that off.

Now, when Uncle Sid dies, the family don't want to bother with those slides and consign them to the bin (or eBay.) I rescue them. It's a service. You're welcome.

Most of the slides are dull, but occasionally, there's a beauty. This blog shares a selection of them - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.